I am really upset that TiVo has decided to enter a fight with the jailbreak community. They sold this device to me under false pretences and I will be returning it within the 30 day return period if the issue is not resolved.

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I rather doubt that TiVo is "picking a fight with the jailbreak community". They are required to secure apps like this, because it is required by content providers and others.

While I'm no fan of content providers (I actually think they are kind of scummy), they have every reason to insist that apps like this are tightly locked down. Everyone that I personally know who has a Jailbroken iOS device rips off most of their apps/content anyway.

The fact that it personally irks you, when you are using your device in the manner you are (Jailbroken) almost definitely does not enter into the equation from TiVos perspective.

Here's a thought, why don't you email TiVo Margaret and ask her why TiVo is "picking a fight with the jailbreak community". That ought to be good for a laugh.

Is it even suppose to work with live shows? AFAIK it's only been announced as supporting watching recordings or side-loading recordings, not live TV.

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For "Live TV" it's supposed to start a recording on the host TiVo if a tuner is available and then start streaming the recording. I guess that means every time the current show ends you will have to request "Live TV" again and repeat the process. Kind of a kludge, but then again what TiVo owner watches live TV anyway?

For "Live TV" it's supposed to start a recording on the host TiVo if a tuner is available and then start streaming the recording. I guess that means every time the current show ends you will have to request "Live TV" again and repeat the process. Kind of a kludge, but then again what TiVo owner watches live TV anyway?

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Yeah, I almost never watch Live TV. My wife does (frighteningly enough).

I've done a bit of testing and it seems to work pretty good. It's really loud though. Sounds like when the video card in my laptop is running full speed.

Just for kicks I tried accessing it via the http page that regular TiVos have but it throws up an access forbidden message. I hope eventually TiVo updates TiVo Desktop to support the stream so you can transfer things directly in the H.264 format. Would save a lot of recoding on my PC if I could just transfer in H.264 and edit out the commercials real quick using VideoReDo.

My cynicism was completely unjustified. I bought a stream so I can stop using tivotogo to convert my shows to put them in iTunes to stream to my iPad. Anyone who does that knows how annoying it is. The stream works like a dream. Streaming is excellent and the sideloading is perfect.

Only problem: why do you have to swipe the screen towards the right to skip 30 secs ahead? It's the opposite to every other app. Minor quibble, I love the stream.

I can't get mine to work at all. It's been plugged in for several hours, and the white light is still blinking and I get a 'TiVo Stream cannot be set up' error message when I try to set it up through the app. I've rebooted my router, tried switching out network cables, and nothing seems to work.

Well I do think I will use this quite a bit. I have tried about every use case I can think of and it really works great... I even moved off the app during a side load and once I came back it was able to reconnect and complete the move easily - very nice.

My only complaint is using metadata to populate the Show name for content stored on ythe iPad. Makes it really annoying moving a home video or ripped movie as it shows up named "To be announced"...